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title: שָׁמִיר — thorn · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שָׁמִיר (lemma:שָׁמִיר), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 6 times: thorn. BDB 1906: n.m. thorn(s), adamant, flint. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שָׁמִיר

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«שָׁמִיר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **thorn** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 6 times · **Key:** lemma:שָׁמִיר · **BDB:** שָׁמִיר

### Glosses

Shamir (3); diamond (2); of.diamond (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

thorn [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c1_5de_5b4_5d9_5e8/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. thorn(s), adamant, flint [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c1_5de_5b4_5d9_5e8/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ez 3:9 thorn(s), adamant, flint;—abs. שׁ׳ Is 5:6 +; sf. שְׁמִירוֹ 10:17;— coll. thorns, thorn-bushes, token of waste-land, only Is, + שַׁיִת Is 5:6; 7:23, 24, 25; 27:4; fig. 9:17; 10:17; קוֹץ שׁ׳ 32:13. adamant, as sharp, כְּתוּבָה … בְּצִפֹּרֶן שׁ׳ Je 17:1 (‖ בְּעֵט בַּרְזֶל); as hard, fig. of prophet’s firmness Ez 3:9; Zc 7:12 fig. of hard heart.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (15 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (10 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שָׁמִיר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c1_5de_5b4_5d9_5e8/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Joshua 15:48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.48/)

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וּבָהָ֑ר שָׁמִ֥יר וְיַתִּ֖יר וְשׂוֹכֹֽה׃

*Word for word:* and in the.hill country Shamir and Jattir and Socoh

*JPS 1917:* And in the hill-country: Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh;

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[Judges 10:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.10.2/)

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וַיִּשְׁפֹּט֙ אֶת־יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל עֶשְׂרִ֥ים וְשָׁלֹ֖שׁ שָׁנָ֑ה וַיָּ֖מָת וַיִּקָּבֵ֥ר בְּשָׁמִֽיר׃פ

*Word for word:* and he.judged (et) Israel twenty and three year\[s\] and he.died and he.was.buried in Shamir

*JPS 1917:* And he judged Israel twenty and three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir.

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